The Pokémon Card Game Scarlet & Violet Enhanced Expansion Pack Hot Air Arena (ポケモンカードゲーム スカーレット&バイオレット 強化拡張パック 熱風のアリーナ) will be released on Friday, March 14th, 2025! The enhanced expansion pack was designed with Shield Battles in mind! Booster packs cost 180 yen and include 5 cards.

Hibiki's Pokémon Appear!

Hibiki is a trainer traveling through the Jouto region.


Hibiki's Houou EX: Its Ability Golden Flame lets you attach up to two basic Fire Energy cards from your hand to one of your benched Hibiki's Pokémon! Its move Shining Feather deals 160 damage and heals 50 HP to each of your Pokémon! It's the key Pokémon ex in a deck centered around Hibiki's Pokémon!

Hibiki's Pichu: The move Sparkling Draw allows you to deal 30 damage and draw 1 card from your deck without using any energy!


Hibiki's Bakphoon: The move Buddy Blast is a powerful move that deals more damage the more Hibiki's Adventure cards you have in your discard pile, up to a maximum of 280 damage!

Hibiki's Magmarashi: With its Travel Bond ability, once during your turn, you can add 1 Hibiki's Adventure card from your deck to your hand! This Pokémon can help stabilize your deck and increase the damage of Hibiki's Bakphoon's move Buddy Blast!


Hibiki's Magcargot: Its move Lava Burst can discard up to five Fire Energy cards attached to this Pokémon and deal 70 damage to your opponent for each card! Even if you discard all of your Energy, you can still escape without having any Energy attached thanks to its Ability Melted Flow!

Hibiki's Magmag: Combustion deals 20 damage.

Kasumi's Pokémon Appear!

Kasumi: Gym Leader of the Hanada Gym. She uses Water-type Pokémon and is known as the "Tomboy Mermaid".


Kasumi's Gyarados: Its move Splashing Panic discards the top 7 cards of your deck and deals 70 damage times the number of Kasumi's Pokémon discarded! It can deal up to a massive 490 damage!

Kasumi's Koiking: With its Ability Super Submerge, it will not take any damage or be affected by the effects of your opponent's Pokémon as long as it's on the bench!


Kasumi's Koduck: Its Ability Slapstick Jump allows you to discard the bottom card of your deck, and then discard all cards attached it, and then return this Pokémon to the top of your deck. When the time right, return multiple Pokémon to the top of your deck and use Kasumi's Gyarados' move Splashing Panic to deal massive damage!

Sacred Ash: You can return up to five Pokémon from your discard pile to your deck. Not only can you return key Pokémon from your discard to your deck, but you can also return Kasumi's Pokémon to your deck towards the end of a match when you have few cards remaining in your deck, increasing the number of Kasumi Pokémon available and increasing the chances of dealing big damage with Kasumi's Gyarados' move Splashing Panic.

Pokémon Trading Card Game Illustration Contest 2024 Promo Cards

With every purchase of a box (30 packs) of the Hot Air Arena Enhanced Expansion Pack, you will receive a set of three promo cards featuring the illustrations that won the Grand Prize, Best Card Illustration, and Best ex Card Illustration in the Pokémon Trading Card Game Illustration Contest 2024.

Source: https://www.pokemon-card.com/products/sv/sv9a.html